Efterklang have confirmed that their new album "Magic chairs" will be released on February 22. Said record was produced by Gareth Jones ( Depeche Mode , Nick Cave , Grizzly Bear ) and will be released in Scandinavia on the band's own Rumraket label and everywhere else via 4AD.
I'm sorry to say, that Nick Cave has been nominated.
The little-documentary-that-could The Story Of Anvil , about the band that was like a "real life Spinal Tap" right down to having a drummer named Robb Reiner, stole everyone's heart this past year. Except for people whose hearts are made of stone. Or metal. Well if your heart was made of \m/ metal then it probably stole your heart, too. But if your heart is made of Oscar-material precious metal, then it didn't steal your heart, it made your heart snub it from its rightful place on the 15-film Best Documentary Academy Award shortlist (via [...]
Efterklang have announced the February 23rd release of Magic Chairs , the band's third full-length studio album and their first for 4ad. During brief breaks from touring in early 2009, the four core members of Efterklang began to develop song sketches into more elaborate arrangements in Tel Aviv and Portland with help from members of their seven-piece live band. Taking these songs with them on the road and testing them out on their US tour allowed the band to fine-tune and hone each new track before returning to Denmark in the spring to begin [...]
Paste interviews David Rawlings about his debut solo album, A Friend of a Friend . Paste: You cover some songs on this record—including a medley of "Method Acting" by Bright Eyes and "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young. How did that come to be? Rawlings: A couple years ago, at the end of '07, Conor [Oberst] called me and asked me if I would come play guitar with Bright Eyes because Mike Mogis was producing a record and it was running on, and they [...]
Paste lists the best debut novels of the decade. Paste interviews David Rawlings about his debut solo album, A Friend of a Friend . Paste: You cover some songs on this record—including a medley of "Method Acting" by Bright Eyes and "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young. How did that come to be? Rawlings: A couple years ago, at the end of '07, Conor [Oberst] called me and asked me if [...]
The story of the seduction of a lesbian by an aging stage actor, which includes an eye-watering scene with a green dildo, has won Philip Roth the dubious honor of a place on the shortlist for the Literary Review's bad sex in fiction award. The Pulitzer prize-winning Roth makes the line-up for The Humbling, in which the aging actor, Simon, converts Pegeen, a lesbian, to heterosexuality. The Literary Review singled out a scene in which Simon and Pegeen pick up a girl from a bar and convince her to take part in a threesome. Simon looks on as Pegeen uses [...]
The Australian legend gets the dubious pleasure of being nominated for the 'Bad Sex In Fiction Award'.
Nick Cave's second novel, The Death of Bunny Monroe, was released in an innovative format, and was somehow completed despite his busy schedule with the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, and his burgeoning soundtrack and screenwriting career. Now, the novel has caught the attention of the annual Bad Sex Award committee, which is presented by the Literary Review magazine. The award is presented for "redundant passages of sexual description," and Cave is joined in the list by some impressive company—Philip Roth and Paul Theroux have both been nominated. "Frankly, we [...]
Album of the Quarter : A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar Runners up: Memory Tapes - Seek Magic , Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem I am well aware that this podcast is a good month and a half removed from the end of 2009's third quarter, and that we are balls deep in the year's capping three-month span. But, perhaps the extra reflection has further winnowed the included tracks down from the fickle week to week whims of the blogosphere? Let's just pretend that that's [...]
The Guardian examines the shortlist for the 2009 edition of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The shortlist: Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand Nick Cave for The Death of Bunny Munro Philip Roth for The Humbling Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones Amos Oz for Rhyming Life and Death John Banville [...]
1 – If I Had A Heart 2 – Triangle Walks 3 – Concrete Walls 4 – Seven 5 – I'm Not Done 6 – Now's The Only Time I Know 7 – Keep The Streets Empty 8 – Dry And Dusty 9 – Stranger Than Kindness 10 – When I Grow Up 11 – Coconut Fever Ray - Dry And Dusty (Live in Lulea) This is a live version of one of the [...]
Rarely does a debut album impact an audience so deeply, that less than a year after its release, a 3-disc deluxe bonus package is both begged for and delivered upon. Fever Ray has just that appeal. The hauntingly fragile yet dripping with electronic pop elementally self-titled debut from the Swedish set, as led by The Knife's Karin Dreijer-Andersson, is one that will undoubtedly rise to the top of the "Beastonian best of the year". The original album will add two studio-recorded cover songs: Vashti Bunyan's Here Before [...]
By Everett True I'm a tastemaker critic. I lecture in music blogging. The title of my own blog is "The Life of Everett True as a Fading Music Critic," and within it, I feature a pleasingly random array of music discovered via social networks (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace) and the odd record-company freebie. There are plenty of links and shoutouts for others operating in similar networks. We're talking Town Bike, Las Kellies, Hello Cuca! , Super Wild Horses, Monster Women, Kitchen's Floor , Blank Realm, Pens . Don't feel bad if [...]
La scorsa settimana abbiamo terminato il nostro viaggio attraverso gli album più importanti del decennio che si sta concludendo. Abbiamo quindi pensato di riassumere il tutto in questo post che non è altro che la lista completa, tappa per tappa, degli album che di volta in volta abbiamo approfondito, in modo tale da avere una sorta di indice delle varie puntate. Dopo il salto trovate anche la listona di tutti gli album che di anno in anno sono stati inseriti fra "gli album da salvare". [...]
Steven "Pav" Pavlovic is founder and director of international record label Modular, which represents many of the names in the music industry right now: The Presets, Cut Copy, Ladyhawke and Van She, to name a few. What does your company do? Anything and everything with any kind of questionable link to good music. What is your background in music/business? I started out managing bands, then booking local venues around Sydney and then moved into promoting tours for both local and international bands, some of which [...]
Welcome to the new, not-really-improved BabyStew This Week In Chicago listing. What's new about it, you ask? Absolutely nothing, except that it now covers the week from Monday through Sunday rather than Sunday through Saturday. It always seemed weird to me not to be listing Sunday shows until the morning of – when not many people are reading blogs – for the sole purpose of sticking with the conventional definition of "week" ( i.e. , Sun-Sat). But convention be damned. So here's what's going on in Chicago this "week". [...]
Recently took in the well-conceived All Tomorrow's Parties documentary- a film incorporating Super8, camcorder and mobile phone footage contributed by filmmakers, fans and musicians from the cult festival's history with major contributions from Jonathan Caouette and Vincent Moon. Featured in the film are performances from Battles, Sonic Youth, Belle And Sebastian, Patti Smith, Animal Collective, Grinderman, Iggy and the Stooges, Portishead, Mogwai, Slint, Grizzly Bear, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip, Daniel Johnston and The Boredoms. The ATP festival is unique for its band and fan curated lineups, lack of corporate sponsorships, and country club [...]
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been creating music together for more than fifteen years with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. In addition, they have collaborated on soundtracks for The Proposition (2005) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), and released White Lunar, a two CD set (2009) featuring music from the aforementioned films along with rare and previously unavailable material. The duo will release their soundtrack to The Road , a new movie directed by John Hillcoat, through Mute on January 12, 2010. [...]
From Teen Dream , the Sub Pop debut and third album overall from Baltimore’s Beach House. Here comes 2010. MP3 :: Norway (from [...]More about Beach House
Dentro del pop comercial, dos de las exponentes más representativas han decidido unir fuerzas y colaborar la una con la otra en dos tracks que representan el [...]More about Lady GaGa
Brand new single from Vampire Weekend! I think I can confidently say that there isn’t a Vampire Weekend song that I don’t like. Vampire [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Me siento afortunado de este momento, el Jueves podre ver a Hercvles & Love Affair, el Viernes a A-Trak, y el Sabado a Röyksopp, es una de esas semanas que [...]More about Beck
Hej alla, ett litet kort meddelande bara. Att Animal Collective snart ska släppa ny EP vid namn Fall Be Kind är ingen större nyhet (digitalt 23 [...]More about Animal Collective
MGMT проговорились, что собираются выпустить новый альбом в начале 2010 года, и называться [...]More about Beyonce
So The xx are some guitar-slangin’ indie kid types that I would not typically be into. However, LA-based DJ Them Jeans has given this track a makeover [...]More about The xx
New ones from mixtape Weezy! These are from No Ceilings. Thanks to Mr. X. Lil Wayne - Swag Surfin | YouSendIt [...]More about Lil' Wayne
I tell you man these Swedes are unstoppable with this music thing, I can’t tell you how many times a good song leads me back to the [...]More about Kanye West
Saw Steve Aoki on Friday just there. I was absolutely hammered and therefore dancing like an absolute gimp on the dance-floor. He played a really good set and did about [...]More about Passion Pit
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - Graze (Fall Be Kind)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
Friday Five: Surf Songs
